The Place of Religion in Chicago
Distributed for Columbia College Chicago Press
With The Place of Religion in Chicago, Wilbur Zelinsky and Stephen A. Matthews provide the first detailed, systematic geographical study of the religious landscape of Chicago. Zelinsky and Matthews have scoured the city—from the South Side to the West Side to the North Side—to document and investigate the locations and traits of the various houses of worship, as well as the congregations that sustain them. Their account is rounded out with photographs, color maps, and tables, making this volume valuable to geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists—but also to anyone with an interest in Chicago and its heritage.
“Zelinsky and Matthews offer a detailed study of Chicago’s religious landscape, one that is illustrative of the diversity that exists at the national scale. The research is quite comprehensive, and the book will be a great resource for academic and non-academic professionals. It will certainly make an important contribution to the study of religion in America—such an in-depth examination of an urban area’s religious geography is original and a welcome addition to the literature.”
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